Saturday, June 24, 2006
arrival in copenhagen
I arrived in Copenhagen yesterday from Oulu and the flight felt like a thousand years.. The gate at Copenhagen was really far away from the baggage claim so I had to walk for miles before I got there, but my bag came out pretty quickly so I didn't have to wait that long. What I did have to wait for was the summer school people, who were supposed to meet us at the gate.. I waited and walked around looking for them and waited some more, then suddenly this girl Line came up to me and asked me if I was there for the CBS programme. How she managed to find me I don't know, but apparently I missed them when I was walking out. Hmm..
She brought me to the Hilton hotel to wait for the bus, and I met some nice people there, Liz from Seattle, Emma from South Africa, Alex from the US and some guy from Mexico but I forgot his name (added 26 June: it's Rene! or something). It was fun but I got to take the earlier bus so I didn't stay on with them and I wish I had cos I didn't know anyone at my residence.. Though I met a French girl called Veronique on the bus.. So I ended up spending the entire time holed up in my room, ate instant noodles for dinner (thank goodness I brought some!) and decided to go take a walk.. But it was 9pm by then so everything was closed.
Today I woke up a bit earlier to go to the supermarket, everything was in Danish but some of the words were similar and also things more or less look the same so it doesn't matter even if I can't understand the words.. Later we have this talk in the school so I need to leave the room a bit earlier to buy the train/bus card.
The area I'm staying in is very near the supermarket and the train station, and there are lots of immigrant families around. When I went out last night there were lots of teens hanging around it was a little scary but they didn't bother me so it wasn't like in France.. There are no lifts at the residence, so carrying bags up and down is a bit of a problem. I couldn't carry mine up yesterday luckily there was a Danish guy who came to show us how to get in and stuff and he helped me with my luggages. I wonder how I'm going to get them down at the end of the trip..
Well this is my room..
It's time to leave for the school now, hope everything goes well and that I don't get lost..
She brought me to the Hilton hotel to wait for the bus, and I met some nice people there, Liz from Seattle, Emma from South Africa, Alex from the US and some guy from Mexico but I forgot his name (added 26 June: it's Rene! or something). It was fun but I got to take the earlier bus so I didn't stay on with them and I wish I had cos I didn't know anyone at my residence.. Though I met a French girl called Veronique on the bus.. So I ended up spending the entire time holed up in my room, ate instant noodles for dinner (thank goodness I brought some!) and decided to go take a walk.. But it was 9pm by then so everything was closed.
Today I woke up a bit earlier to go to the supermarket, everything was in Danish but some of the words were similar and also things more or less look the same so it doesn't matter even if I can't understand the words.. Later we have this talk in the school so I need to leave the room a bit earlier to buy the train/bus card.
The area I'm staying in is very near the supermarket and the train station, and there are lots of immigrant families around. When I went out last night there were lots of teens hanging around it was a little scary but they didn't bother me so it wasn't like in France.. There are no lifts at the residence, so carrying bags up and down is a bit of a problem. I couldn't carry mine up yesterday luckily there was a Danish guy who came to show us how to get in and stuff and he helped me with my luggages. I wonder how I'm going to get them down at the end of the trip..
Well this is my room..
It's time to leave for the school now, hope everything goes well and that I don't get lost..
# posted by .sibonga. @ 11:09 AM 
